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Title: | ON THE OPTICAL–X-RAY CORRELATION FROM OUTBURST TO QUIESCENCE IN LOW-MASS X-RAY BINARIES: THE REPRESENTATIVE CASES OF V404 CYG AND CEN X-4 | Authors: | BERNARDINI, Federico Russell, D. M. Kolojonen, K. I. I. STELLA, Luigi Hynes, R. I. Corbel, S. |
Issue Date: | 2016 | Journal: | THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | Number: | 826 | Issue: | 2 | First Page: | 149 | Abstract: | Low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) show evidence of a global correlation of debated origin between X-ray and optical luminosity. We study for the first time this correlation in two transient LMXBs, the black hole (BH) V404 Cyg and the neutron star Cen X-4, over six orders of magnitude in X-ray luminosity, from outburst to quiescence. After subtracting the contribution from the companion star, the Cen X-4 data can be described by a single power-law correlation of the form {L}{opt}\propto {L}{{X}}0.44, consistent with disk reprocessing. We find a similar correlation slope for V404 Cyg in quiescence (0.46) and a steeper one (0.56) in the outburst hard state of 1989. However, V404 Cyg is about 160-280 times optically brighter, at a given 3-9 keV X-ray luminosity, compared to Cen X-4. This ratio is a factor of 10 smaller in quiescence, where the normalization of the V404 Cyg correlation also changes. Once the bolometric X-ray emission is considered and the known main differences between V404 Cyg and Cen X-4 are taken into account (a larger compact object mass, accretion disk size, and the presence of a strong jet contribution in the hard state for the BH system), the two systems lie on the same correlation. In V404 Cyg, the jet dominates spectrally at optical-infrared frequencies during the hard state but makes a negligible contribution in quiescence, which may account for the change in its correlation slope and normalization. These results provide a benchmark to compare with data from the 2015 outburst of V404 Cyg and, potentially, other transient LMXBs as well. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/29765 | URL: | https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/0004-637X/826/2/149 | ISSN: | 0004-637X | DOI: | 10.3847/0004-637X/826/2/149 | Bibcode ADS: | 2016ApJ...826..149B | Fulltext: | open |
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